FILE PHOTO: FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov gestures during a news briefing in Moscow, Russia March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
ATHENS (Reuters) - The World Chess Federation (FIDE) says its Swiss bank accounts have been frozen because its president - with whom the FIDE secretariat is embroiled in a power struggle - is under U.S. sanctions for alleged dealings with the Syrian government.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a Russian who has headed FIDE for over two decades, was placed under U.S. sanctions in November 2015, accused of aiding the Syrian government.
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